Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub

Re:Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub by OJFord on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:34AM (#36069011)

Tailscale uses Wireguard, but offers so much more on top. I used to think the same, but I think I was mixing it up with Zerotier; had a play with it and now think it's pretty great.

For example, you can set ACL rules for which devices can access which others (or the internet, if you have explicit exit nodes) - it's using Wireguard for networking, but you can't do that with (just) Wireguard, it's not just 'make Wireguard easier to set up', as you said that doesn't really need doing.

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Re:Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub by throwaway742 on Friday May 26, 2023 @06:53AM (#36082481)

I see. I use firewalls to control which devices can access which others. To each their own.

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Re:Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub by tehbeard on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:38AM (#36084762)

This is a chud "Dropbox is just rsync" attitude.

There's value to some to having networking config centralised like that. It allows things like auto adding certain clients to certain rules/groups automatically.

Not spending time cycling through each server to poke iptables.

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